Joseph O'Neal, "top and bottom rung"

Artist Statement

I paint non-objective imagery in conjunction with words, names, and dates to prompt an ambiguous field of opportunities. I compose vivid colours in organic shapes and lines bringing awareness and urgency to the spaces between text and form; suggesting textual interpretation from a place beyond verbal or written language. My work reflects an in-between state of expressionism, and a surface stained by the relationship between ambiguity and memory.

Artist Bio

Joseph O’Neal paints non-objective imagery in conjunction with words, names, and dates to prompt an ambiguous field of opportunities. He is an internationally exhibited artist living and working in Easton, Pennsylvania. O’Neal has participated in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, and Mexico. These include three iterations of A Sunday in Soho; a notable large-scale two person exhibition held in Basel, Switzerland in 2011, 2015, and Zürich in 2018. O’Neal’s work has appeared in publications such as The Basler Zeitung, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Art Rated, Still Developing: A Story of Instant Gratification, Lula Japan, as well as interview features with Telebasel, and NPR.

top and bottom rung, pencil, wax pastel and found paper on paper, 8.2" x 11", 2021, $300